{"product_id":"last-train-to-the-missing-planet-9781597093538","title":"Last Train to the Missing Planet","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcclaimed for combining the accessible and profound, Kim Dower's poetry has been described by \u003ci\u003eThe Los Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e as \"Sensual and evocative . . . seamlessly combining humor and heartache,\" and by \u003ci\u003eO Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e as \"unexpected and sublime.\" Her third collection, \u003ci\u003eLast Train to the Missing Planet\u003c\/i\u003e, rockets forward in this trajectory, taking us on a journey to places we've often visited but never seen. Buy a ticket and hop aboard: experience love, longing, and passion tipped sideways; irreverent, touching, and disarmingly sexy as illuminated by an original and brilliant light. Lose yourself in the unexplored sensations of the ordinary in this engaging year of moments, both comforting and terrifying—and always extraordinary.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“In her third collection (after \u003ci\u003eSlice of Moon\u003c\/i\u003e), Dower invests the most ordinary moments with a significance that doesn’t feel strained. “Dawn cracks me open like a clam,” she proclaims in “Another Morning. “Am I alone\/ pretending it’s you pushing me\/\/ out of sleep, or us together, a team half waking.” And when the situation turns serious, she doesn’t become grim but reveals the passion that underpins many of her poems: “From our kisses, obliterate it with desire,” she says of the end of the world, “. . . locked in an emergency embrace.” A poem on natural disasters concedes that “life changing decisions will be made” yet ends, “it’s only a cleansing for the paradise that can lie ahead,” and many of the poems resonate with that same determined energy. Dower paints scenes nicely (“Santa Ana winds lifting bones from the earth”), and even an encounter with a raccoon on a Los Angeles byway is invested with magic, as the speaker imagines the creature a cursed prince or princess looking for someone to break the spell. VERDICT Throughout, Dower maintains a fine level of craft and reverberant feeling. A satisfying collection for most readers.”\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e—Barbara Hoffert, \u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cp\u003e**Poetry from \u003ci\u003eLast Train to the Missing Planet\u003c\/i\u003e featured in \u003ci\u003eO, the Oprah Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFeatured on The Writer's Almanac\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Red Hen Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51742631493975,"sku":"9781597093538","price":12.34,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781597093538.jpg?v=1758385752","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/last-train-to-the-missing-planet-9781597093538","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}